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RTE Website . . WTF?

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  • 05-01-2017 1:51pm
    #1
    Drumpot
    Registered Users Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭


    What in the name of Jesus are they doing with the website?

    Used to be one of my favourite daily reads, but in the last few months its become a complete clusterf*ck of jumbled crap....


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    gifted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,863 ✭✭✭gifted


    Drumpot wrote: »
    What in the name of Jesus are they doing with the website?

    Used to be one of my favourite daily reads, but its become a complete clusterf*ck of jumbled crap....
    Gone really bad lately...all over the place


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    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Just like the channels then


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    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    I don't know.


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    #5
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    It was always ****e, now it's even more ****.

    Looks like the MSN homepage, big ugly image links and ads all over the place.

    No doubt they paid some company thousands upon thousands for it.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    It has become responsive
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design


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    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,231 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    biko wrote: »
    It has become responsive
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design

    God Help Us All.

    *I haven' t read the wiki link and am taking Responsive to mean sentient.


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    hairyslug
    Registered Users Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    Drumpot wrote: »
    clusterf*ck...

    In my list of favourite swear words, that's got to be right up there


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    Clarebelly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 250 ✭✭Clarebelly


    Drumpot wrote: »
    RTE Website . . WTF?

    What in the name of Jesus are they doing with the website?

    Used to be one of my favourite daily reads, but in the last few months its become a complete clusterf*ck of jumbled crap....

    Nonsense.
    It's my first stop for all Eoghan Mcdermott head injury related news.
    Well worth the licence fee...........


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Drumpot wrote: »
    What in the name of Jesus are they doing with the website?
    Used to be one of my favourite daily reads, but in the last few months its become a complete clusterf*ck of jumbled crap....
    Really?


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    jive
    Registered Users Posts: 5,762 ✭✭✭jive


    Despite the fact 50% of the page is ads the ads in the sidebar don't even fit. The headlines and sections look like some web designer came up with the internet equivalent of Homer Simpson's makeup shotgun.


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    daheff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,837 ✭✭✭daheff


    i signed up to their RTE Player site (to try win tickets to the toy show). cant unsign up to the buckets of spam they keep sending me. When i try, it goes to a page that says its not working/unresponsive



    An unexpected error has occurred!
    Error Message: Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'Email Address', table 'ExactTarget7003.C7268989.Master_Subscribers'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails. The statement has been terminated.

    Description: An unexpected error occurred during the execution of the page.


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    #13
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    The area titles point to this being an intern "shure we're quiet now, have a go" job.

    New Highlights (dot)
    Business (dot)
    Voices (dot)

    And Editors Pick: "Seven Irish Podcasts You Need To Subscribe to"
    :mad: Way to use your heft there bucko.


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    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,231 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Clarebelly wrote: »
    Nonsense.
    It's my first stop for all Eoghan Mcdermott head injury related news.
    Well worth the licence fee...........

    Not Facebook? Dude seems to be getting a bit of milage out of that, as are the tabloids reporting on his Facebook updates.


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    #15
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Yeah it's dreadful. I detest most of these responsive sites. When m.boards goes I'll most likely use the desktop site from my phone.


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    CruelCoin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    jive wrote: »
    Despite the fact 50% of the page is ads the ads in the sidebar don't even fit. The headlines and sections look like some web designer came up with the internet equivalent of Homer Simpson's makeup shotgun.

    1 - Install firefox / Chrome
    2 - Install the "Adblock" plugin/addon
    3 - No more ads, anywhere. not even in youtube videos.
    4- You're welcome.


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    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    1 - Install firefox / Chrome
    2 - Install the "Adblock" plugin/addon
    3 - No more ads, anywhere. not even in youtube videos.
    4- You're welcome.
    Are you the messiah, future man?


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    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,208 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    biko wrote: »
    It has become responsive
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design

    Also known as "mobile sites that look **** on a desktop".

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #19
    chakotha
    Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    I check it every morning along with breakingnews.ie.

    I think it still looks very unfinished and needs more work.

    However the content available on the front page is much better and accessible without clicking through to the various sections to find news. And I'll scroll to the bottom to see the "10 most read".

    In the last version of the site I'd scan the top 6 inches of the front page and I'd be gone.

    The version before that again I thought was great at the time.


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    Giblet
    Registered Users Posts: 11,977 ✭✭✭✭Giblet


    daheff wrote: »
    i signed up to their RTE Player site (to try win tickets to the toy show). cant unsign up to the buckets of spam they keep sending me. When i try, it goes to a page that says its not working/unresponsive



    An unexpected error has occurred!
    Error Message: Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'Email Address', table 'ExactTarget7003.C7268989.Master_Subscribers'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails. The statement has been terminated.

    Description: An unexpected error occurred during the execution of the page.

    That's a really bad error


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    #21
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Giblet wrote: »
    That's a really bad error

    Aye,

    Unsubbing looks impossible.


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    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,717 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Yeah it's dreadful. I detest most of these responsive sites. When m.boards goes I'll most likely use the desktop site from my phone.

    Unfortunately that'll only work until they eventually foist the "beta" site onto us (as was tried previously) as "ready"

    But I agree.. so much wasted space, oversized text and huge images. Not everyone browses the Internet on a bloody 5" phone!


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    #23
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    I just had a look at it for the first time in ages.

    Its taken on the style of a click bait website which images everywhere.


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    Clarebelly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 250 ✭✭Clarebelly


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Aye,

    Unsubbing looks impossible.

    Same Web designer as the Catholic church?


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,427 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    But I agree.. so much wasted space, oversized text and huge images. Not everyone browses the Internet on a bloody 5" phone!
    This is what gets me about these so-called "responsive" websites, i.e. they actually aren't responsive at all, quite the opposite in fact, they're 100% biassed towards phone / tablet users and while the designers are at it, they dumb the websites down to the absolute lowest common denominator as well.

    When I open a website looking for information I expect to see as much as can possibly fit on the main page without being too cluttered, and simple to find, and use, menus to allow me to find everything else ... NOT having to scroll endlessly through hundreds of arty-crafty images that slide and lurch over each other as I scroll, making me feel sea sick.


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